{"product_id":"why-why-not-volume-8-paperback","title":"Why\/Why Not: Volume 8 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartha Ronk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy\/Why Not\u003c\/i\u003e presents a speaker caught in quandaries created by changing perspectives, fervors, and locales. Why do we act one way here and another there; why can't a mind stay made up; why do we hate and love at the same time; why does memory fade or insist; why does the ordinary seem so uncanny? These questions are captured in lines that collide and merge, in irreverent and offhand jibes, and in plaintive repetitions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy\/Why Not\u003c\/i\u003e moves across a vivid terrain--the stage of \u003ci\u003eHamlet, \u003c\/i\u003e Phillip Marlowe's Los Angeles, Prague, paintings and gardens--to push through a tangle of ways to make sense of the world. Martha Ronk's poetic language is that of the everyday slightly skewed, as if pieces of an ordinary sentence were missing. Ronk's poems use the repetitive and the banal to explore ways in which language is intertwined with thought and experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Ronk's book, language is in the mood for mischief, while still being acutely attentive to its own unreliability. We're pulled into this sparklingly original work where ordinariness veers coolly and equivocation beguiles. These gorgeously agile poems reveal us as our never-ready and always-ready selves.--Molly Bendall, author of \u003ci\u003eAriadne's Island\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ronk, in her 'looking for\/ the conjunction of the past and the present, ' produces a poetry that questions the context of living, its arrangements, its decisions. Her sure-footed investigation is equaled by its prosody of progression\/recursion in a particular lexicon of grace and elegance. Reader, find surprises in this lovely packet of poems.\"--Norma Cole, author of \u003ci\u003eSpinoza in Her Youth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Ronk\u003c\/b\u003e is Irma and Jay Price Professor of English at Occidental College. Among her books are \u003ci\u003eEyetrouble \u003c\/i\u003e(1998), \u003ci\u003eState of Mind \u003c\/i\u003e(1995), and \u003ci\u003eDispleasures of the Table \u003c\/i\u003e(2001).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 8.44 x 5.62 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724176166975,"sku":"9780520238114","price":53.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7b7f772e8e6848540a768a60eff1c71a.webp?v=1765101764","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/why-why-not-volume-8-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}